From: anonymous
Date: 2011/4/28
To: nesson@law.harvard.edu
Hi Professor Nesson - Thought you might be interested to know that 30 out of the 31 songs Joel Tenenbaum downloaded can be downloaded legally and for free if you’re located in China. I got the list of songs from the wikipedia entry on the JT case and then searched the songs on google.cn/music (links included [...]
Reposted from JUST ENRICHMENT
After a first day that was full of panels focused mostly on the business aspects of the music crisis, today the lawyers gave their views on the problems facing the music industry. With cleverly named sessions like “The Current State of Copyright Law,” and “The Future of Copyright Law,” and with preeminent [...]
Reposted from JUST ENRICHMENT
I took in a pretty full day of panels at Day 1 of the Rethink Music conference (my preview post from last night is here). While tomorrow’s lineup promises lots of great stuff on copyright law and policy, today’s schedule was pretty business-oriented. As such, I’ll hold off my explicitly legal analysis [...]
Reposted from JUST ENRICHMENT
For the next two days, this Humble Contributor will be attending a conference called “Rethink Music.” It promises two days of fascinating dialogue about the future of the music industry among artists, entrepreneurs, record company executives, lawyers, policymakers, academics, and students. Harvard’s Berkman Center has posted a great briefing book and a [...]
The Daily Conversation: Student Shares 30 Songs, Gets Sued for $675,000 by RIAA
50 Cent on File-sharing
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Recently came across this blog by Ryan Piccirillo. We were touched by the story. Reposted below.
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MARCH 1, 2010 · 7:48 PM
http://freshmandenial.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/an-hero-joel-tenenbaum/
An Hero: Joel Tenenbaum
Since coming to BU I have been fortunate to hear some pretty remarkable people speak: from Elie Wiesel to John Krasinski, from Noam Chomsky to Michael Cera, not to mention many distinguishes guest-lecturers [...]
By Jason Harrow & Phil Hill (JFB legal team, generation 3)
It has been nearly six months since the trial court judge in our case reduced the $675,000 jury verdict against Joel down to $67,500. After many years of wrangling and a week-long trial in the summer of 2009, that decision finally ended the proceedings before [...]
Guest post by Whitney Harper
Buried in a document full of rejections, last week the Supreme Court denied to hear my case. I am a defendant in one of the tens of thousands of cases against peer-to-peer file-sharers. The music industry has pursued a litigation campaign in an attempt to hold a selection of individuals responsible for [...]
Posted by: Joel Tenenbaum
This is the pile of used CDs I’ve bought since the July 31st ruling. This could have been the RIAA’s business on iTunes, but this is now how I buy my music.